Nutritional iron status and susceptibility to Proteus mirabilis pyelonephritis in the rat

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Abstract
Moderately iron-deficient rats were significantly less susceptible to experimentally induced Proteus mirabilis pyelonephritis than iron-sufficient or severely iron-deficient littermates, as indicated by significantly lower prevalence of infection, mean pyelonephritic lesion scores, and numbers of P. mirabilis cells recovered from the kidneys.